flamant
\fla.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“flamant” is uncommon French (frequency #52,071 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,071
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau échassier, ainsi nommé à cause de la belle couleur de son plumage comparée à une flamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flamant · flamant · French
flamant · rank #52,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,071
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Firewall
Nearest frequency peer: Firewall (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flamant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fet
fet
47,933 corpus weight
- ficus
ficus
47,932 corpus weight
- Firewall
Firewall
47,931 corpus weight
- flamant
flamant
47,930 corpus weight
- flegme
flegme
47,929 corpus weight
- foireuse
foireuse
47,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flamant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flamant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flamant is uncommon French at frequency #52,071 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fla.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oiseau échassier, ainsi nommé à cause de la belle couleur de son plumage comparée à une flamme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flamant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flamant, spelled F-L-A-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Oiseau échassier, ainsi nommé à cause de la belle couleur de son plumage comparée à une flamme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flamant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du costé de la transmontane advola vn grand, gras, gros, gris pourceau ayant æsles longues & amples comme sont les æsles d'vn moulin a vent. Et estoit le pēnaige rouge cramoysi, cōme est d'vn phoenicoptere: qui en langueguoth est appellé flammāt.
Si le chef aux cris sublimes est un aigle ; Canalis, blanc et rose, est comme un flamant.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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